Advanced Presentation & Virtual Facilitation

This capstone unit synthesizes advanced business communication strategies for presentations, meetings, and virtual team collaboration. Students integrate analytics, storytelling, DEI, visual design, facilitation techniques, and producer coordination to audit, redesign, rehearse, and deliver inclusive, timely, and transparent communications.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze communication audits, predictive analytics, and audience data to identify at least three specific gaps in clarity, inclusivity, or timeliness and recommend prioritized, evidence-based improvements
• Apply the RER framework, storytelling, and visual design principles to create and deliver an 8–12 minute multimedia presentation that incorporates charts, metaphors, DEI considerations, and a producer-managed live or simulated demonstration
• Demonstrate facilitation and engagement techniques by leading a 20–30 minute simulated virtual session that uses whiteboarding, quick polls, gamification, voluntelling, and synchronization strategies to elicit participation and produce clear action items
• Evaluate written and oral communications to remove jargon and sesquipedalian language, enhance transparency and accessibility, and produce revised materials that meet timeliness and inclusivity standards